The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
By: edited by Christopher Looby.
Contributors: Looby, Christopher.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Diaries.; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Correspondence.; United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1864-1866); Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries.; Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- Race relations.
Genres: Diaries.; Correspondence.; Personal narratives.
Description: "In 1870, Thomas Wentworth Higginson - the colonel of the first black regiment in the Civil War - published his account of Civil War life in Army Life in a Black Regiment. Still in print today, and based in part on Higginson's extensive war diary, the book has become a classic of Civil War literature. Now, for the first time, Higginson's journal of his war experiences is available in its entirety.

Accompanied by a selection of his letters, this diary is politically and ethically stirring, vividly literary, and simultaneously evocative and descriptive. It will be recognized as one of the most important chronicles of the Civil War as well as a gripping account of one of the most radical racial experiments in American history."--BOOK JACKET.

"The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson has been sensitively and thoroughly annotated by Christopher Looby, who adds important contextual details and further sources to Higginson's account."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.